Lewis Allen

Nascimento : 1905-12-25, Oakengates, Shropshire, England, UK

Morte : 2000-05-03

História

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Lewis Allen (25 December 1905 – 3 May 2000) was an English film and television director. Allen worked mainly in the United States, directing 18 feature films between 1944 and 1959. From the mid-1950s he moved increasingly into television and worked on a number of the most popular shows of the time in the U.S. Description above from the Wikipedia Lewis Allen (director), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmes

Persistence of Vision
Narrator
A short documentary profile of the Anthology Film Archives, shot on the eve of the move to the historic 2nd Avenue Courthouse. Staff and patrons are interviewed, and films preserved by Anthology are spotlighted.
Decision at Midnight
Director
Adaptation of the play Music at Midnight, set in the Iron Curtain.
Whirlpool
Director
The ex-girlfriend (Juliette Greco) of a German fugitive hides with the captain (O.W. Fischer) and crew of a ship on the Rhine.
Vítima de uma Paixão
Producer
In England during WWII, an American news correspondent’s affair with a married British correspondent ends tragically when he is killed in action. Fearing a nervous breakdown as a result of his death, she travels to Cornwall to mourn with his family without any intention of revealing her relationship with him.
Vítima de uma Paixão
Director
In England during WWII, an American news correspondent’s affair with a married British correspondent ends tragically when he is killed in action. Fearing a nervous breakdown as a result of his death, she travels to Cornwall to mourn with his family without any intention of revealing her relationship with him.
Man on the Ledge
Director
Beat cop Bragan is about to go off duty when he discovers a man standing on the ledge of a hotel more than a dozen stories up. Bragan tries to talk the man, Robert Cosick, down from his threatening perch and in the process learns the reasons for the Robert's suicide attempt.
Trágica Fatalidade
Director
A hugely successful DA goes into private practice after sending a man to the chair -- only to find out later he was innocent. Now the drunken attorney only seems to represent criminals and low lifes.
Cada Bala Uma Vida
Director
Raoul Leduc is a police inspector trailing a spy who plots to kidnap an important American atomic scientist. Joe Victor a gangster who is hired to carry out the abduction, balks when he learns what is at stake and helps Leduc out instead.
Meu Ofício é Matar
Director
The tranquility of a small town is marred only by sheriff Tod Shaw's unsuccessful courtship of widow Ellen Benson, a pacifist who can't abide guns and those who use them. But violence descends on Ellen's household willy-nilly when the U.S. President passes through town... and slightly psycho hired assassin John Baron finds the Benson home ideal for an ambush.
At Sword's Point
Director
France, 1648: Richelieu and Louis XIII are dead, the new king is a minor, and the Duc de Lavalle is in virtually open rebellion, scheming to seize power. As a last resort, Queen Anne summons the heirs of the original Musketeers to her aid...including Claire, daughter of Athos, who when she chooses can miraculously pass as a boy, and wields as fine a sword as any. All their skills will be needed for a battle against increasing odds. One for all and all for one! Written by Rod Crawford
Valentino
Director
Italian immigrant Rudolph Valentino makes it big in silent Hollywood, but he ends up struggling between his career and the woman he loves.
Na Boca do Lobo
Director
Al Goddard, a detective who works for the United States Postal Inspection Service, is assigned to arrest two criminals who've allegedly murdered a U.S. postal detective.
Caminhos Sem Fim
Director
On Chicago's South Side reporter Ed Ames finds the body of a dead girl. Her address book leads to a host of names of men frightened by her death but claiming never to have known her. Ames comes to know quite a lot, dangerously so.
Sealed Verdict
Director
John Hoyt plays a high-ranking Nazi being prosecuted by an army tribunal in the aftermath of World War II. Sentenced to death, the general appeals to the American investigating Major (Ray Milland), claiming mitigating circumstances, and providing the names of witnesses who will clear his name. This sends the Major in a search through the ruins of post-war Germany to determine the degree of the general's guilt.
Alma Negra
Director
In the late 19th century, on board a ship sailing from Jamaica to England, Olivia Harwood, a recent widow, takes on the task of caring for several malaria patients, including Mark Bellis, a mysterious and tormented painter.
A Filha da Pecadora
Director
Fritzi Haller (Mary Astor) é a dona de um saloon e um cassino na fictícia pequena cidade de Chuckawalla, Nevada. Sua filha, Paula Haller (Lizabeth Scott), acabou de largar o colégio e resolveu voltar para casa ao mesmo tempo em que o gangster Eddie Bendix (John Hodiak) também retorna à cidade. Ele já se envolveu com Fritzi, mas deixou a cidade sob suspeita de ter assassinado sua mulher. Paula apaixona-se por Bendix, eles se envolvem. O ex-namorado de Paula e o xerife local, Tom Hanson (Lancaster), junto ao parceiro de Bendix, Johnny Ryan (Corey), tentam acabar com o relacionamento. Quando Fritzi descobre sobre os dois, logo tenta proteger Paula desse provável desastre amoroso. Mas, quando resolve fugir de Hanson - que quer livrar a cidade de tipos como Bendix e Ryan, Eddie Bendix verá que o passado, apesar de morto, ainda poderá cruzar seu caminho de maneira inesperada...
O Casamento Perfeito
Director
A couple celebrate their tenth anniversary by quarreling their way to divorce court.
The Imperfect Lady
Director
A British peer's romance with a ballerina courts scandal in 1890s London.
Those Endearing Young Charms
Director
A soldier loses his girlfriend to his best buddy.
Medo Que Domina
Director
David Fielding, who has recently lost his wife, moves into a new neighborhood under a cloud of suspicion. Many feel that his wife's death in a car crash was no accident. Elizabeth Howard, the governess he hires to look after his children, makes it her mission to find out the truth. When other murders seem to be following David to his new town, Elizabeth investigates with the help of David's son Barnaby.
Our Hearts Were Young and Gay
Director
In 1923, two young ladies depart unescorted for a tour of Europe, meeting two eligible men aboard ship. Their great naïvité and efforts to seem grown-up lead them into many comic misadventures.
O Solar das Almas Perdidas
Director
A brother and sister move into an old seaside house that has been abandoned for many years on the Cornwellian coast only to soon discover that it is haunted by the ghost of the mother of their neighbor's granddaughter, with whom the brother has fallen in love.
Freedom Comes High
Director
A young wife learns that freedom must sometimes be paid for in lives, when her husband's ship is struck during battle.